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George Leopold

George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).

Kubernetes Adds API, Windows Upgrades

September 18th, 2019 Comments Off

As the de facto standard Kubernetes cluster orchestrator moves deeper into enterprise IT infrastructure, version updates are coming a faster pace. The third release in 2019 comes with a grand total of 31 “enhancements” in various stages of production ...

Dell’s AMD-Powered Server Line Targets High-End Jobs

September 17th, 2019 Comments Off

Dell Technologies rolled out redesigned servers this week based on AMD’s latest Epyc processor that are geared toward data-driven workloads running on increasingly popular multi-cloud platforms. Dell, which has seen its lead shrink in the contracting global server market, ...

Enterprise Networks Still Falling Short

September 16th, 2019 Comments Off

Network bandwidth and overall performance remain concerns for digital enterprises as they roll out data analytics and edge computing efforts. Nearly two-thirds of companies surveyed by management consultant Accenture (NYSE: CAN) said their enterprise networks are not up to ...

AWS, Bloomberg Go Global with Data Feed

September 13th, 2019 Comments Off

Bloomberg, the financial data giant, is expanding its partnership with Amazon Web Services to extend private cloud access to its real-time market data feed to global customers. The partners announced the availability of Bloomberg’s flagship B-PIPE service on AWS (NASDAQ: ...

Google’s ML Compiler Initiative Advances

September 12th, 2019 Comments Off

Machine learning models running on everything from cloud platforms to mobile phones are posing new challenges for developers faced with growing tool complexity. Google’s TensorFlow team unveiled an open-source machine learning compiler called MLIR in April to address hardware ...

U.S. Non-Military AI Investments Near $1B

September 11th, 2019 Comments Off

The White House projected this week that U.S. civilian research agencies will spend nearly $1 billion on AI research during the next fiscal year. The estimate was released by U.S. CTO Michael Kratsios during a panel discussion on the ...

Open-Source Kuma Tackles Service Mesh Limits

September 10th, 2019 Comments Off

A new open-source project targeting micro-services and cloud-native applications running on everything from bare metal to Kubernetes is billed as a universal control mechanism for emerging service meshes. API hub specialist Kong Inc. said Tuesday (Sept. 10) it has ...

Server Market Contracts, HPE Gains Market Share

September 9th, 2019 Comments Off

The global server market contacted for the first time since 2016 after a year of historic growth, signaling an abundance of IT capacity and economic uncertainty as global trade frictions grow. Despite a 11.6 percent year-on-year decline, International Data ...

Google Upgrades AI Hub

September 6th, 2019 Comments Off

Google Cloud has added collaboration tools to its AI Hub launched earlier this year as a clearinghouse for machine learning pipelines and trained models. A new homepage provides users with access to a roster of “shared private assets” ranging from ...

Red Hat, Docker Lead Early Container Race

September 5th, 2019 Comments Off

You know an enterprise technology segment is maturing when market analysts begin issuing ranking reports. Among the first for the booming application container market is an IHS Markit assessment that anoints IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) new Red Hat unit as ...